Incredibly insightful. You are spot on. I reckon that more people ride with the bots than anything else. Zwift’s numbers always fascinate me as the numbers riding in each world on the main screen rarely tally with what the Companion app says. The Companion app seems to count anyone just looking at the app whilst on a coffee break at work? All I want is a permanent 3.0 w/wg bot on Tempus Fugit and I’m happy. Over Level 100 XP is pointless. Drops are pointless (who wants the slowest bike in the World Tour peloton?) and badges - well don’t get me on that! It’s my first day free of caffeine, can’t you tell ;o)
Yet somehow the steady bots were killed off and replaced with dynamic ones.
For a laugh, Constance should do laps of Epic KOM, Radio Tower and ADZ for a few weeks, I can’t imagine everyone being happy with Constance doing the entire ADZ climb at 345w, and “recovering” at 315w on the few flat parts.
Anyhow, the old steady pace partners are a thing of ancient history, never to be seen again.
Need to introduce hydration and nutrition to the shop, your energy bar depletes as you go up the Alpe and completely bonk until you take a gel bought for 50c.
Probably pedantic, but with the pacers in the new strip, plenty of riders using the same Tron colour, outlines highlighting me and followers but not the pacer, I’m finding it much harder to assess how far I’m behind a pacer (in front has the helpful distance indicator). Especially with a large group in the nightime mode. The halo is quite dim and hard to judge the distance ahead with all the other more illuminated distractions.
The easiest solution which I know has been requested, would be to mirror the same distance indicator in front as well as behind.
Not so problematic if you prevent weight changes of more than a certain amount per day, so you don’t have riders suddenly going from 68kg to 48kg from one ride to the next.
That’s the first time I’ve heard it called that. It’s white text on a white background isn’t it? I can just about make out the name of the bot, but it’s obscured by the graph et al.
Similarly to the white text on the white background that pops up to tells you to catch up with whoever you’re not-quite-drafting. Not helpful at all.
You’d think that list of nearby riders to your right would come into play at some point but, nope, that’s unreadable and next to useless as well.
In the UK we used to have a TV show called ‘Blue Peter’ and every now and again they’d have a competition where the nation’s kids would have to send in a drawing on some theme. The winner would end up as a mural somewhere - and it looked like those drawings many parents have on their fridge that their 5 year old has painted at primary school. This is how I suspect zwift designed their hud.